Articles

Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Questions to Consider on Robots and Jobs

Apr 6, 2017

Despite dismissive comments by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, facing the challenge posed by robotics replacing human labor raises key public policy questions 

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Debating Household Debt

Mar 8, 2017

INET grantee JW Mason has been engaged in an important debate with the Financial Times’ Matthew Klein over the relationship of household debt to income inequality

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Carbon Dividends: The Bipartisan Key to Climate Policy?

Feb 13, 2017

The practical question in Washington today is not whether regulations will go, but whether anything will replace them

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At Sea Without an Anchor

Feb 10, 2017

A presentation from The Economics of Post-Factual Democracy, the first annual conference of The Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) at The University of Copenhagen

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Why Economists Should Think of Themselves as Plumbers

Jan 23, 2017

From physicists to engineers to meds to plumbers: thoughts on Esther Duflo’s ASSA 2017 lecture on rediscovering the last art of economics

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Remembering Tony Atkinson as the Architect of Modern Public Economics

Jan 19, 2017

Beatrice Cherrier remembers Tony Atkinson’s influential intellectual, educational and institutional contribution to the field of public economics

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A Socialist Market Economy With Chinese Contradictions

Jan 3, 2017

Beijing’s leaders face a critical dilemma over a credit boom that imperils China’s prospects for a smooth transition to a sustainable economic path

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A Moral Challenge to Economists

Jan 1, 2017

Extract from the keynote speech by the Rev. Dr. William Barber III at the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference on race and economics in Detroit on November 11

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Contemplating the Age of Hyper-Uncertainty

Dec 19, 2016

In the 40th anniversary year of John Kenneth Galbraith’s Age of Uncertainty, the 1970s look remarkably stable in comparison with today’s turbulent world